Re: JavaHL: Serializable and breaking binary compatibility?

On 4/23/07, Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com> wrote:
> I needed to serialize a Revision and discovered that the class doesn't
> implement java.io.Serializable.
>
> I have a patch ready that serialized this class and any other class that
> doesn't include native methods and just acts like a C structure for data.
>
> ChangePath
> CommitItem
> CopySource
> DirEntry
> Info
> Info2
> Lock
> MergeInfo
> ProgressEvent
> Revision
> RevisionRange
> Status
>
> Will this break Java code that compiled against the old,
> non-serializable classes?

No. The only thing that would break old clients is removing methods
that used to exist or making them work differently. Making classes
Serializable will not do that.

> Thoughts?

My only concern is maintaining it properly. Handling serializing old
versions etc. OTOH, we probably do not change data elements very
often, so it is not likely too big of a deal.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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